COLLINS AND EVANS IN ACTION 'DOWN UNDER'
 Luke
Collins (pictured left - photo courtesy of Tom Ward) and Ben
Evans, two of England’s promising youngsters, have been
selected to represent the English Golf Union in the Federal
Amateur Open Championship in Australia at the end of the month
The 72-hole stroke play event is being played at the Federal
Golf Club in the capital, Canberra, on 29th September to 2nd
October.
Collins, 21, from the Mendip Spring club in Somerset, finished
fourth in this summer’s Russian Amateur Championship,
his first foreign trip for the EGU. The former Millfield schoolboy
has been a member of the England A Squad for the past two
years and reached the quarter finals of this year’s
Spanish Amateur Championship.
He is also a former Somerset junior champion and a regular
in his county side that remained unbeaten in winning the Channel
League in 2005.
Evans, 19, from Rye in Sussex, won the Sunningdale Foursomes
with Danielle Masters in March and has followed that with
high finishes in the West of England Stroke Play Championship
and the St Andrews Links Trophy.
He later finished tied third in the Riverswood Junior Open
in Holland and in the South of England Stroke Play Championship
at Walton Heath.
Evans is a former boy international and was a member of winning
teams in the European Boys Team Championships in 2004 and
the Boys Home Internationals in 2003 and 2004.
The Federal Amateur Open Championship will host an international
field of 160 players. There will be a cut after 36 holes,
the leading 60 and ties qualifying for the final two rounds.
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